Sandur, also spelt Sundur (Kurdish: سندۆرێ, romanized: Sindorê,[1][2] Hebrew: סונדור),[3] was a village located in Iraqi Kurdistan, about 70 miles north of Mosul,[4] near Duhok, towards Amediyah.
[6] All the village lands belonged to Jews who worked in the vineyards and orchards of pears, plums, pomegranates and apples.
[8] Mordechai Zaken, who investigated the history of Kurdistani Jews in the previous centuries, explained why in some reports there seemed to be only Jews residing in the village, while in other reports, the Muslim Kurds lived in the outskirts of the village.
[10] During the Allied occupation of Iraq and in the backdrop of the Farhud, sporadic attacks on Jews continued throughout World War II.
"[12] With the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, things got worse for Iraq's Jews who were portrayed as Zionists.
Soon after, rural Jews faced a worsening economic situation and felt increasingly vulnerable.